Juan Solano

The Right Rev. Lord Brother Juan Solano, O.P.
Bishop Emeritus of Cuzco
Solano sealing the marriage of Sayri Túpac (from the Nueva Corónica y Buen Gobierno by Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala)
Province	Seville (1544-1546); Lima (1546-1562)
See	Cuzco
In office	29 February 1544–1562
Predecessor	Vincente de Valverde y Alvarez de Toledo, O.P.
Successor	Francisco Ramírez
Orders
Ordination	c. 1530
Consecration	24 October 1546 by Archbishop Jerónimo de Loayza, O.P.
Personal details
Born	c. 1505 Archidona, Málaga, Crown of Castile
Died	14 January 1580 Rome, Papal States
Buried	Basilica of Santa Maria sopra Minerva, Rome, Italy

Juan Solano, O.P. (c. 1505 – 1580), was a Spanish Dominican missionary and the second Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Cuzco, Peru.

Solano was born in about 1504 in Archidona, a town in the Province of Málaga. He studied at the Colegio de San Esteban of the University of Salamanca. It was there that he decided to enter the Dominican Order. He began his novitiate in the last months of 1524, and made his final profession on 24 December 1525. Solano then served in various positions before becoming prior of the Monastery of Santo Domingo in Peñafiel.

In September 1543, Solano was nominated as the second Bishop of Cuzco by Emperor Charles V. Without waiting for papal confirmation and still not consecrated to the episcopacy, Solano took the opportunity to embark to Peru with the Viceroy Blasco Núñez Vela. They left Sanlúcar de Barrameda on November 3, 1543 and arrived at Nombre de Dios in modern Panama on January 10 of the following year. On January 24, 1544, Solano set sail from Panama, landing at Tumbes, Peru, on March 4 and continuing the journey by land to Lima.

Due to the rebellion of Gonzalo Pizarro, Solano was unable to enter Cusco and take possession of his see. Instead, he joined the royal army. He was first able to enter Cusco on 3 November 1545, and was finally consecrated as bishop on October 24, 1546 by his fellow Dominican friar, Jerónimo de Loayza, the newly elevated Archbishop of Lima. He was, however, forced out of the city after the Battle of Huarina in 1547. Because of his loyalty to the king, Solano roused the ire of the rebel Francisco de Carvajal, who commented that he, "having sat in his church and prayed for peace among Christians, walked around the camp like a field marshal". After the defeat at Huarina, Solano joined the forces of Pedro de la Gasca. He was present at the Battle of Jaquijahuana, which decisively ended the uprising in favor of the royalist Viceroyalty of Peru.